How you improve an alarm clock when adding nature sounds, CD players and extraneous features like Bluetooth capability has already been done? Shape it like a flute and make it control your home theater, of course.
That’s the route Bang & Olufsen has taken with the BeoTime, an alarm-clock-cum-remote-control inspired – according to the company’s own PR – by the conflict between night and day in Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute. A polished aluminum tube comes topped with three tiny square LCD displays to do the time telling, a pop-out lever in one end to activate and deactivate the disarm, and accelerometers within to fire up the backlight with a nudge at night, or trigger the snooze in the morning.
